I saw this new Apple ad yesterday on ESPN after reading about it from Ryan Sims. Its a campaign for the latest iPod shuffles.[1]
Apple has taken over the ESPN homepage in the past. Their ads have successfully interacted with elements of the page, and not to mention, brought the clicks in as people have been intrigued by them. I know I was, as I had to replay them more than twice.
PS. This is the second Flash ad that I can recall doing this “break” concept. The first one I saw to successfully fool me to doing a WTF-moment occured this past September. It was a Nintendo Wii game campaign for Wario Land: Shake It! on Youtube.
Just had a 14-team fantasy basketball live online draft earlier at 8:45pm. All I can say is that it was pretty darn long w/ 14. 12 would’ve been great.
Meanwhile, the league is hosted by Yahoo. I can definitely say that I like playing on there best as their UI/UX just rawks. Other than it being 14 team managers taking about 1-minute and 30-seconds to do a pick, I was upset at first grabbing the 13th spot in the draft order[1]. But I guess, it was a good thing on the wrap-around. Here’s how my team shaped up to be:
(13) Chris Bosh – TOR » PF, C
(16) Baron Davis – LAC » PG
(41) Jason Kidd – DAL » PG
(44) Al Horford – ATL » PF, C
(69) Michael Beasley – MIA » SF, PF
(72) David Lee – NY » PF, C
(97) Jameer Nelson – ORL » PG
(100) Raja Bell – PHO » SG
(125) Ricky Davis – LAC » SG, SF
(128) Monta Ellis – GS » PG, SG
(153) Andres Nocioni – CHI » SF, PF
(156) Mikki Moore – SAC » PF, C
(181) Vladimir Radmanovic – LAL » PF
I was trying to pickup Rudy Fernandez (Portland Trailblazers » PG, SG) for my 13th-spot but he got picked up at the end of the 12th-round. There were a couple of more guys in front of Radman but hearing that he’ll be starting in front of Lamar Odom and Trevor Ariza as a Small Forward, I say why not. He’ll probably get some dishes from the inside and sink some threes in. Being a player with only PF status at the moment, he’ll need to start at least 3-games if I recall correctly in terms of Yahoo dubbing him as a SF.
Anyways, I’m happy overall with my draft being 13 out of 14 team managers. But if you got any suggestions with regards to picking up another Shooting Guard and/or Center, let me know. I’m thinking I might need a SG to fill in that 3rd-spot rotation till Monta Ellis heals up.
Lebron James went #1. Then Chris Paul #2. I would’ve taken Chris Paul personally, but you can’t go wrong with either of them. The league settings were Yahoo default in terms of position. The stat categories had the additional OREB and AST/TO. [↩]
So I just got home from a flight from SWA–I’m in LA now. As I’m trying to setup my Fantasy Baseball lineup for Saturday, I came across one of my pitchers’ news tidbit. It was for Germano; a Padres pitcher. Keep in mind, I haven’t seen ESPN or any sports news yet…
Jun 8 San Diego Padres SP Justin Germano (knee) was hit near his left knee by a foul ball off the bat of OF Hiram Bocachica in the third inning, Friday, June 8, against the Seattle Mariners, according to the Associated Press. After sacrificing Bocachica along, Germano went into the clubhouse, although he ended up staying in the game through five innings.
After reading this, the first thing that came across my mind was that the ball magically turned into a heat-seeking sidewinder. Yeah–exactly. How the heck did this happen, or even how the heck could it happen?
I mean, your on the mound, and you get hit by a “foul ball”?!?!
Damn. I just need to watch Sports Center.
Update: 5 minutes later. While trying to win some dough on Blingo, I searched for “Hiram Bocachica”. http://www.hirambocachica.com/ … Oh. HA! =) Maybe the writer of that snippet should’ve specified it was his own damn teammate. Just maybe. I mean come on, not everyone knows every teams’ players.
An Introduction to OpenType Substitution Features2010/07/03 The Type1 format where 256 characters are assigned to keys on our keyboard, is becoming a thing of the past. We now design and produce OpenType fonts which can consist of thousands of characters — additional ligatures, various figure sets, small caps, stylistic alternates, … — referred to as glyphs. With these many sets of glyphs integrated in a single font, we are faced with the challenge of including definitions instructing the applications we're using when to show which glyph. Simply adding a glyph with a ligature to your font doesn’t mean the program you’re using knows when or how to apply it. Whether you want your typeface to change the sequence of f|f|i into the appropriate ligature or want to use old-style figures instead of tabular, you’ll need to add features to your font — glyph substitution definitions — to make it happen.
In this article we’ll give you a look behind the scenes of OpenType substitution features — a general rather than comprehensive overview as the subject is
Beautiful Photo Stack Gallery with jQuery and CSS3 | Codrops2010/06/28 In this tutorial we are going to create a nice and fresh image gallery. The idea is to show the albums as a slider, and when an album is chosen, we show the images of that album as a beautiful photo stack. In the photo stack view, we can browse through the images by putting the top most image behind all the stack with a slick animation.
We will use jQuery and CSS3 properties for the rotated image effect. We will also use the webkit-box-reflect property in order to mirror the boxes in the album view – check out the demo in Google Chrome or Apple Safari to see this wonderful effect.
We will also use a bit of PHP for getting the images from each album.
Attack2010/06/26 ATTACK is a multidisciplinary creative team that is an "agency within an agency" at Wieden+Kennedy New York. Balancing its small size with maintaining the functions of a full-service agency means that adaptability is fundamental to the team's operational ethos. ATTACK actualizes comprehensive solutions with a distinct point of view for W+K clients, internal W+K work and initiatives the team develops on its own.